Hard to believe that I started this painting twenty days ago at the 2015 Patchings Festival as part of my demonstrating.

I never find it easy to paint whilst being watched, but people love to see how you go about your work and it makes the event unique and is a great talking point. So I was slower than in normal studio conditions and I also set myself quite the challenge putting pink flowers on pink floral, throwing in some lace-work and tackling that composition from above.

I didn’t get it finished at the festival so in-between travelling up and down the country looking at University open days with my youngest, I’ve been fiddling with this.

After being busy with art events over the last few weeks, I have been catching up with h/w and garden work this week and what a lot there was! It always amazes me the amount of energy plants have to throw up huge stems from tiny seeds – shame to pull them up really but the garden was running away with itself.

I did manage to snatch a peaceful few hours to paint these simple little beauties before they got potted out into hanging baskets. I love the opportunity pansies offer to bleed watercolours together to create a sweet little pansy face.

I am just back from a tres blustery walk in the woods with Lottie and ready to share a little sunshine here because it is just so crazy miserable out there today.

Here’s proof that the sun did shine for a moment yesterday – honest!

These are close up’s of some bright, sunny flowers I’ve been painting for greetings cards – the kind you find where there is sunshine to grow them – remember sunshine? warmth? being able to walk along without fear of that creaking branch actually snapping off and falling on your head?!

When I got back to my desk, my inbox sent me a little sunshine too, with news of a , an invite to apply for a craft fair and this quote from Good Reads :

It feels incredible to me that it is only four short weeks since I embarked on a full-time career in painting. I am loving every minute of it and getting a ton of work done. My week has found its own rhythm of design work on the computer (with the radio thumping away to stir the creative spirit) and days of painting (with audiobooks playing to dis-engage that left brain thinking.)

This painting presented itself (more-or-less) on the kitchen table, as I had cut down some left-over Pinks and had lit the pink candle for dinnertime. With the introduction of some crochet and silver it has become a study in pink and grey.

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